Thanks to the Northern New York Library’s Network’s professional development grant program, I recently had the opportunity to attend the ALSC National Institute, one of the only conferences dedicated to children’s librarianship. I attended some wonderful sessions on...

Description of Department: Penfield Library is a dynamic, innovative, and learning-centered environment serving students, faculty and staff at SUNY Oswego. The Library supports campus curriculum, teaching, and research, and is a member of the SUNY Library...

Advocacy Alert! Governor Andrew Cuomo has released his 2019-2020 Executive Budget proposal, pitched as a “Democracy Agenda,” which includes drastic cuts to library funding. If democracy relates to active participation of the people in politics and civic life,...

Job Posting – Academic Library Fellowship, St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY) https://employment.stlawu.edu/postings/1767 General Summary of Position: The St. Lawrence University Fellowship offers a unique opportunity in a small liberal arts setting to a recent...

The Empire State Library Network (ESLN) has negotiated a discount on the conference registration for Computers in Libraries to be held at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA, on March 26-28, 2019. Discount code for NNYLN members for...

The Northern New York Library Network is proud to announce the projects funded in the 2018-19 grant cycle. The Network awarded $47,010 to its member libraries, whose proposed projects pursue innovation or increased access to special collections in their libraries....

Silas Wright House The original portion of the Silas Wright House was built in 1832. Red Barn The 10,000 square foot Red Barn Addition opened to the public in 2001. Building Conditions The grant through Senator Ritchie will provide funds to repair and repaint siding...

On Sunday, July 29th the NNYLN offices suffered a power failure. Normally this would not affect operation of the NYS Historic Newspapers web site (NYSHN). However, the generator failed to run and about an hour after the power failure the backup batteries ran out of...

The Ticonderoga Historical Society recently updated their website. They also have a variety of fun programs for all ages going on throughout the rest of the summer which you can check out here. Some of the summer programs include Soldiers and Suffragettes! (7/14)...

Please be aware that as part of our continuing storage migration project we’ve be experiencing some unforeseen technical problems with the functionality of the web site. These are the problems that we are currently aware of: A number of newspaper titles have...